All of the best things in life are unkind

Cripes. Do you have any idea how expensive exotic dried mushrooms are? I'm looking over the wholesale price list for the market in Cinci. Dried morels - $96 for 12 ounces. That's $128 per pound at our price! Of course, they're the most expensive, but still. Eeek!

I've worked quite industriously this morning, but now I'm pretty much done with stuff. I even did a bunch of things that didn't technically need doing which always makes me feel a little good. I'm not sure where my energy came from.

I need to figure out what to do with this head of mine. I need a haircut, and it's beginning to be fairly desperate. I'm pretty sure that my hairstylist takes off on Wednesdays, which makes the whole thing a little more complicated. Well. Sorta more complicated.. the truth is that I hate making appointments so I'd rather blame it on her. :) You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to walk in to some place where they're good at this sort of thing and say "Please fix my hair" and then see what they come up with. I have no idea where one would be able to do that around here with some hope of it working out. I'm just very afraid of what I would look like if I walked into Super Cuts or wherever and put that sort of trust into a random stranger, but at the same time, I'm too indecisive to choose a style. Troublesome.

I don't seem to be all that inspired to write today. I've been tatting a bit this afternoon, but I just noticed that I joined incorrectly a few rings back, so I need to take that out. I could leave it and no one would notice, probably, but I would know it was there and be unhappy with it. I don't want to get started on removing stuff until I get home, though. Untatting something that you've already done is one of the slowest things to do, and rings are extremely hard to open (and sometimes completely impossible.) On the other hand, adding a new thread and hiding the previous ends are a major pain. Woe is me. I'm back to working on my doily, though, which is good. I want to get it finished. I finished the main part of a cross bookmark last night that I took a break to do. I need to do a cord type thing and press it, then I'll scan it. I'm quite happy with how it turned out.. it might very well be the prettiest thing I've made, if not the biggest. The doily I'm working on now is already bigger in size than anything I've completed, and I'm beginning to learn of the challenges of working with real doilies. It hangs in your way when you're working on it! And, okay, here's a bit of shallow materialisticness I was secretly pleased a minute ago, even when I was cursing at the inconvenience of it all.. it kept getting stuck on my engagement ring. I do love my ring. :)

Speaking of weird things to be pleased by... I've realized that I enjoy buying glass cleaner. It just seems to me somehow that if I have to replace my window cleaner, then I must be keeping a clean house. I mean, it's just not a heavy use item, and therefore, replacing it means that you've been using it heavily. Or something. Maybe I'm just crazy. I don't know why it's important that I believe I'm keeping a clean house, since frankly, I care a little less than I should about it. I think I'll worry more about it when I have a nice house and carpet that's not orange and threadbare in places and dark wooden paneling. It's just not inspiring to clean now, most of the time! (I would like to add, though, that I'm talking about normal levels of not caring. My house IS reasonably clean, just not perfect all the time. Just so you don't think we're slobs.)

Okay, just two hours to go. If I worked eight hours a day, I'd be home now. Hmph. I haven't done any scrapbooking in weeks. I've worked on little projects.. I made a rather cute little background paper at work last week. For some reason I just can't complete a layout. I open one, work on it for a few minutes, move things around, sigh and close it. I miss it. I know I'm taking too long of a break from one of my hobbies when Magnus starts nagging me about it. :) I think I need to stop worrying about making each one original works of art and just get back into the business of preserving photos.

Home now, and I'm pretty sure that I'm getting sick. I wasn't sure at the end of the day if I was feeling poorly because of the heat or because of sickness. It's been 90+ today, and it was very warm at the store again. Not as bad as last week since the hideous humidity is gone, at least. Anyway, now I'm home and have eaten and cooled off, and I'm feeling decidedly presick. Throat a little tight, achiness in my lower back and bones, lightheadedness and sneezing. This sucks, as we had just finalized plans to go to Kentucky Kingdom on Wednesday.. M's taking a vacation day. Can't really go if I'm sick, and can't go next week cause I have a chiro visit. Maybe Saturday. Anyway, no big deal, really, I guess. Will just be even more whiny than usual, though. :) I'm sucking on an echinacia and vitamin C drop and have taken two of my Flinstones vitamins today. I think it might be much too late.. most of my family has it. :)

My parents came down after work for a little while so Dad could fix our toilet. It's been running for the last three weeks, just a little trickle. As of last night, it sounded like it was just flushed all the time. So now it's fixed and all is well with the world. And Homefront will be on in eleven minutes, so I'm happy. I've really been enjoying this. I'll be so disappointed if they don't start rerunning them from the beginning.. there are only three more shows or something now. Anyway, night night! (Not that I can post this when I finish writing since our suck-ass internet connection is out again..)